A Review of the Literature on The Open High School in Turkey between the Years on its 10th Anniversary (1992-2002): A Revised and Expanded Version

Demiray, Ugur, Ed.; Adiyaman, Zehra, Ed.

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In this section general evaluation of the study will be done, without detailed comparison and content analysis for the reason that the abstracts are not sufficient to conduct a detailed comparative content analysis at that moment, it will try to give some interesting points of the findings and cumulative knowledge on the abstracts. This study covers during 10-years period on 110 researches or studies which have conducted between the years of December 1992 and September 2002. Their first versions of this study were covering only 70 studies, which have been conducted between the years 1992 and 1997. Most of the studies were conducted by Ministry of National Education Film, Radio Television Education Directorate to receive feedback on the application of Open High School and they were published as an internal paper by copying. And also, most of the studies and articles have nearly 10 to 15 pages per volume. In addition, theses are also around 100-150 pages. The oldest study of the open High School application belongs to year 1992. The studies in this literature review were conducted mostly by the same researchers and by the same institutions. This shows us that some researchers (for example; Catal, Esirgen, Hakan, Kaya, Ulug, Sozen agin and Teker) and institutions (for example; FRTED, MONE) conducted more than one study on the Open High School. More than 30 studies are realized by some institutions such as Ministry of National Education-MONE (mostly prepared by Ali AGIN), PIAR, and ARGE and by other organizations. Six of them were conducted by private or governmental institutions. Most of the studies were conducted by Ministry of National Education, Directorate Film, and Radio Television Education as an internal paper. Also in this literature review, it is observed that 12 researches realized as a group study. 7 of 10 researches were done by two researchers, 3 of 10 were done by four researchers and 2 of 10 were done by five researchers as group study. Other studies are realized by one author.